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  • PART II REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS
    (Chapters 183 through 210)
  • TITLE II DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS
  • CHAPTER 190B MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM PROBATE CODE
  • ARTICLE V PROTECTION OF PERSONS UNDER DISABILITY AND THEIR PROPERTY

Section 5-102 - Facility of payment or delivery

Section 5-103 - Delegation of powers by parent or guardian

Section 5-104 - Reserved

Section 5-201 - Appointment and status of guardian of minor

Section 5-202 - Parental or guardian appointment of guardian for minor

Section 5-203 - Objection by minor fourteen or older to parental appointment

Section 5-205 - Reserved

Section 5-207 - Court appointment of guardian of minor; qualifications; priority of minor’s nominee

Section 5-208 - Bond; consent to service by acceptance of appointment; notice

Section 5-209 - Powers, duties, rights and immunities of guardian of minor; limitations

Section 5-210 - Termination of appointment of guardian; general

Section 5-211 - Reserved

Section 5-212 - Resignation, removal, and other post-appointment proceedings

Section 5-301 - Nomination of guardian for incapacitated person by will or other writing

Section 5-302 - Reserved

Section 5-306 - Findings; order of appointment

Section 5-307 - Bond; acceptance of appointment; consent to jurisdiction

Section 5-308 - Emergency orders; temporary guardians

Section 5-310 - Termination of guardianship for incapacitated person

Section 5-311 - Removal or resignation of guardian; termination of incapacity

Section 5-312 - Reserved

Section 5-313 - Religious freedom of incapacitated person

Section 5-401 - Management of estate

Section 5-402 - Protective proceedings; jurisdiction of business affairs of protected persons

Section 5-403 - Reserved

Section 5-405 - Notice

Section 5-406 - Reserved

Section 5-408 - Protective arrangements and single transactions authorized

Section 5-409 - Who may be appointed conservator; penalties

Section 5-410 - Bond

Section 5-412 - Acceptance of appointment; consent to jurisdiction

Section 5-412A - Emergency orders; temporary conservators

Section 5-414 - Reserved

Section 5-415 - Petitions for orders subsequent to appointment

Section 5-416 - General duty of conservator; plan

Section 5-417 - Inventory and records

Section 5-419 - Conservators; title by appointment

Section 5-420 - Recording of conservator’s letters

Section 5-421 - Sale, encumbrance, or transaction involving conflict of interest voidable; exceptions

Section 5-422 - Persons dealing with conservators; protection

Section 5-423A - Delegation

Section 5-424 - Distributive duties and powers of conservator

Section 5-425 - Enlargement or limitation of powers of conservator

Section 5-426 - Preservation of estate plan; right to examine

Section 5-427 - Claims against protected person

Section 5-428 - Personal liability of conservator

Section 5-430 - Payment of debt and delivery of property to foreign conservator without local proceedings

Section 5-431 - Foreign conservator; proof of authority; bond; powers

Section 5-501 - Definition

Section 5-502 - Durable power of attorney not affected by lapse of time, disability or incapacity

Section 5-503 - Relation of attorney in fact to court-appointed fiduciary

Section 5-505 - Proof of continuance of durable and other powers of attorney by affidavit

Section 5-506 - Enforcement

Section 5-507 - Protection; third parties